SciFi Art Now is a book collecting some of the best in contemporary science fiction art by a wide range of creators. The book, edited by John Freeman, includes an introduction by the legendary Chris Foss and is on sale now in all good bookshops.

Friday, 22 October 2010

John Royle is a freelance British comic artist living in the UK. His personal favourite comic charatcers he's worked on include Spider-Man, the X-Men, Wolverine, Ultra Force, Prime, Avengers and the Fantastic Four - samples of which can be found on his web site.

He's worked on many comic books and Illustrations for various publishers and clients including Marvel Comics (both in the US and the UK), DC Comics, Hewlett Packard, Royal Mail, Disney, Procter and Gamble, Panini, The Times, Paramount Pictures, Malibu Comics, Acclaim, Readers Digest USA, Aussiebum, Ge Fabbri, Muscle and Fitness, Film On and even the impressive sounding Euromoney Institutional Investor.

He recently drew a comic strip page for a campaign by cough medicine makers Benylin, which is appearing in several British womens magazines to promote a new brand in their product range, commissioned by ad agency JWT.

SciFi Art Now: What tools do you mainly use to create your art?

John Royle: Pencil, ink and colour in Photoshop.

SciFi Art Now: What inspired you to become an artist?

John: The cover to the 1960's X-Men #50 featuring Lorna Dane and the X-Men . Also, John Byrne and Terry Austin's classic run on the X-Men.

SciFi Art Now: What was the most useful piece of advice you were given when you began learning your craft?

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About Sci-Fi Art Now

Sci-Fi Art Now is a book collecting some of the best in contemporary science fiction art by a wide range of creators. The book, edited by John Freeman, includes an introduction by the legendary Chris Foss, published in the UK by ILEX and in the US by Harper Collins.

A full list of artists featured, together with links to their web sites, appears below.

Chris Foss

Chris Foss provides the introduction for Sci-Fi Art Now, an artist who has had an immense impact on our collective vision of the future down the years, as cover artist for many SF books written by authors such as Harry Harrison, Philip K Dick, Isaac Asimov and E.E. 'Doc' Smith'; and his design work for films such as Alien and Superman.